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popeBeanie,

All very good points underscoring why “All Natural=All Good” is a Fallacy.

The EU and our own home-grown MAGA anti-science freaks need to learn from Sri Lanka how costly and deadly that Fallacy is too:

The Crisis in Sri Lanka Rekindles Debate Over Organic Farming
https://time.com/6196570/sri-lanka-crisis-organic-farming/

Sri…[Read more]

Here is a recent story about humans ‘helping’ Mother Nature with genetically modified mosquitoes.

jakelafort wrote:
Recently i wandered lonley as a cloud by the boat launch awaiting a day of luxuriating in squamous surroundings under a beating sun.

Awesome prose, as usual. I was impressed enough to ask AI, and see if it seems smart enough to know if it was written by AI. IMO, it passed my test, although I don’t think the reasoning it gave was…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
All things domesticated for consumption by humans lo these past 11,000 or so years are “Organic” because they are Carbon-based life forms, and they are all “Genetically-Modified Organisms” whether by selective breeding or in a Petri Dish.

I think this is a more interesting topic than it first seems. At least one group o…[Read more]

I find that AI is good at summarising textual information, and keeping meanings largely intact, based (apparently) on the philosophical idea that the meaning of a word lies in how it is used.

I had it summarise my book in Adobe pdf reader, and it didn’t tell me anything new, just made a good hierarchical summary.  Maybe if someone started asking…[Read more]

Reg,

Google users are less likely to click on links from an AI summary result.

They’re probably scared of confronting an Elmo Hitler leading a Legion of African and Asiatic Waffen SS.

I asked DuckAI how many people have died from the food dyes that RFKJR and the MAHAs like to rail against. It mentioned conditions correlated with food dyes, but…[Read more]

Reg,

Environment: What’s the place of ‘new genomic techniques’ in organic agriculture?

Another redundant term thrown into the mix.

All things domesticated for consumption by humans lo these past 11,000 or so years are “Organic” because they are Carbon-based life forms, and they are all “Genetically-Modified Organisms” whether by selec…[Read more]

Recently i wandered lonley as a cloud by the boat launch awaiting a day of luxuriating in squamous surroundings under a beating sun. Get it done. Apply that high factor sunscreen liberally. Start near the ants. Work way to face. Open eyes and shields of youth known as eyelashes and eyebrows fail me. Into the right eyeball. “oh fuck me that stings…[Read more]

Thanks Reg 🙂

Have a great week!!

“If your belief needs protection from questions, then it wasn’t knowledge to begin with.”

Me…

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250723045709.htm

Not worth a new topic, so I’m putting it here.

PopeBeanie,

The examples you cite are all perfect examples of Medical AI done right.

Unfortunately, I suspect that “Free Palestine”-ers and lazy cartoonists who make three-fingered characters have evidently hijacked all the AIs and produced all the FUBAR scandals that have come from AIs lately.

Right now, for the moment, I am also simply…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if onl…

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Reg,

I’ll be the first to say that there need to be private alternatives set up side-by-side with attempts to scale back bureaucracy, not just a willy-nilly tearing things down.

AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be…[Read more]

@Enco – This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

I can’t make a very strong argument against that. But this time, while it is a different boss, it is also a new form of plodding. Collapsing the FDA will be a mistake. Reforming it should be the priority. It should have happened a lot sooner, but meaningful reform can…[Read more]

Reg,

Collapsing the FDA is also domestic terrorism.

Color me unterrorized but very disgusted. This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

Look, all they have to do is see that products are not dangerous when used as prescribed. Effectiveness is something that takes trial and error to determine and that should be…[Read more]

Reg,

Yes, but it is still the contents page from the “How to become a Dictator” handbook. The extreme right are all wrong.

Doesn’t make it Gospel (and, of course, The Gospel is not Gospel.). A book that doesn’t get it right about Hitler can’t possibly be any help in understanding the nature of tyranny.

What form of government do Americans want?

I asked Zonk, my LLM.

Around 21-25% of Americans favor a system where the president has unilateral power, akin to a dictatorship. This percentage is relatively consistent across different polls. Here’s a breakdown {{IE_0}}¹{{/IE_0}} {{IE_1}}²{{/IE_1}} {{IE_2}}³{{/IE_2}}:
– Support for Au…[Read more]

Yes, it’s frightening how quickly all the rich and powerful (except Rupert Murdoch) are spinelessly caving in to kiss the orange arse.  After Trump’s reign is over, they will be called collaborators.